The below additional links provide specific standards for health informatics and data standards.
- ASC X12 - chartered by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) more than 30 years ago, develops and maintains EDI and CICA standards along with XML schemas which drive business processes globally.
- American Medical Association (AMA) Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement® (PCPI) Standards
- AMA Tools for Transaction and Code Set Standards-Transactions are electronic exchanges involving the transfer of information between two parties for specific purposes (e.g., a physician will send a claim to a health plan to request payment for medical services).
- American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) on Computerized System Standards for HIT
- HIPAA Administrative Simplification Enforcement Tool
- GS1 Healthcare Standards: Implementation Resources
- HL7® HIT Standards approved by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
- HL7® HIT Standards approved by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
- HL7® Standards - Master Grid
- Integrating the Health Enterprise (IHE) Domains
- Consolidated CDA® Document Types
- International Standards for Master Data Quality - Electronic Commerce Code Management Association (ECCMA)
- ISO 8000 – International Standard for Data Quality-The roots of ISO 8000 are grounded in cataloging. Cataloging is the process of describing an item by its characteristics, as opposed to its identifiers.
Note: This page is heavily focused on U.S. Standard Development Organizations (SDOs) however these groups intend to harmonize with international consensus-based standards.